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One way links are an impetus for internet advertising. Through it you can get relevant traffic for your website from all places. Not only that, one-way linking can also increase your ranking on search engines like Google and Yahoo. So it is like cutting the cake and eating it too!
What Exactly Are One Way Links?
One way links are links of your own website available on other sites. They are called ‘one way’ because you do not have any links of those sites on your own website. Why this option of internet advertising is enormously popular is because these one way links attest that your site is of high quality and worth a visit.
People who are keen on one way links to your site are people who are familiar with your business and its growth prospects. The traffic that they direct to your site is the kind you would want to sell your goods and services to. Then, when are you making more and more customers, what is in all this for the websites that are happy with only one way linking with you? Yes, they also benefit, although indirectly. Your popular website, which is much in demand, will bring some targeted traffic their way also.
How Do I Make My One Way Links Work?
The importance of one way linking cannot be ignored, even if your site has great content with loads of pertinent information. In case it doesn’t, the first and foremost thing that you need to do is improvise on the content, for then only with the other websites be keen to have one way links with you. Although, let me also forewarn you here that you cannot get success overnight in this regard, getting more one way linking in this case is a painstakingly slow process.
The other ways in which you can make one way linking work for you are:
- Post one way links of your site on service directories. The web users who search service directories for services and goods are high target traffic, for they know exactly what they want and exactly where to find it. Besides this, if you post your links on directories, search engines will also start to like you and raise your site’s ranking.
- You could also use one way links on article directories. You could write good content articles and provide a link below them to your site. Relevant articles lure customers and to know more in all probability, they will click on your one way links and visit your site as well. Using phrases like, “read more at…” or “continue on……..” give direction to the traffic towards your site.
- You may also join relevant communities and forums. Make sure that you use your signature as a link at these places to get traffic moving towards your site.
A good webmaster will use all these above mentioned ways to make one way links work for his site, and come out with some ways of his own too! Are you good webmaster, is yet to be seen!
